Active surveillance of Q fever in human and animal population of Cyprus

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Loukaides, Fidias ^a   Hadjichristodoulou, Christos ^b   Soteriades, Elpidoforos S ^b   Kolonia, Virginia ^b   Ioannidou, Maria Christina ^c   Psaroulaki, Anna ^c   Tselentis, Yannis ^c  

^a Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATTLE DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; CYPRUS; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GOAT DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; Q FEVER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; CYPRUS; GOATS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; Q FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP;

EID: 33646557993     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-48     Document Type: Article

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